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At a recent rally, a ham radio reported asked Hillary if she knew about the Bengali key. She retorted, “I said all I’m going to say about Benghazi.” The reporter was then invited to leave.

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membership is $49 per year. Any thought of a membership without the physical QST magazine, only the Digital QST edition for a lower annual cost?

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Thanks for leading on this Brian.  Likely, my contributed questions will overlap with input from others. I would enjoy Tom’s thoughts on these issues.

1. Many ham radio enthusiasts (young and old) are getting their general technical news and training material from multimedia platforms and are integrating these platforms and tools into their ham shack.

Do you envision the ARRL enhancing their use of multimedia resources and product offerings to reach out to members and the general community at large? If so, how will these actions balance with the great print media resources that ARRL has now?

2. The ARRL has an active program of scholarships and financial grants to foster and support technical education and the role of ham radio in community service.

Please share your thoughts on the direction and emphasis this area will have in your tenure. Also, how can local radio clubs use these resources to promote amateur radio and related technology in community schools, scouting organizations, Boys/Girls Clubs, etc. ?

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Thanks for the inclusion of your thoughts, Fred. I would like to specifically add to your point 1.

Currently, many kids may know how to “use” technology, when in reality I’m betting the average number of them just use it for social media purposes, or entities like Spotify, Skype, or Google Docs; not super-dooper brain-powered stuff.

It’d be nice to hear Tom’s thoughts on strategies he and ARRL have to disentangle kids’ drive towards technology in the form of social media etc. and redirect it towards an almost legitimate understanding and use of technology (call it the maker movement for the sake of argument, which would include amateur radio). Furthermore, what does Tom see as arguments one makes to the parents of these kids, who are the ultimate arbiters of judging the usefulness of their child’s time.

For other club members, please add your thoughts to this thread. So I encourage you to:

1. Get a nice cup of iced (or hot) coffee and perhaps a tasty treat to go right along with it.
2. Enjoy that tasty treat with your beverage, presumably in a cooled A/C room.
3. While enjoying that treat, send me a quick note with your thoughts for Tom’s visit.
4. Cue overwhelming sense of contentment from sneaking in that treat before dinner and helping out AB1ZO 🙂

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I’m going to try to make it.  I’m visiting an old college friend on Saturday near Vermont’s Northern border and plan to go to the park on Sunday.

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I think we pretty well covered Jeff’s questions in our code class. If you get a chance please join us when you are in town…

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This is very sad news… Rex was a longtime member of our club and his contesting prowness will be sorely missed…

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I came across an unusual Morse Code training link on the web but haven’t explored it in any depth.  You may want to look at their website and read up on their training philosophy.

The technique involves having a story read to you “one letter at a time” and letting your mind translate the letter series back into words you comprehend.   As your brain adjusts to this type of audio you can instruct their tool to start substituting a list of letters you want to hear sent in Morse code in place of some of the vocalized letters. Eventually you expand your list to include the entire alphabet.  You also get to select the sending speed.

The website states that they charge for this service, but you can try it for one week for free.

Try MorseFusion.com if you wish to give it a try.

It’s a different technique so likely will take some time to gain the necessary familiarity.  While I haven’t worked with it, I like the approach because when your sending you’re spelling out the words that you want to send in your head, and sending them as you spell them.

Might be worth a try…..

 

 

 

 

 

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I was an instructor in the Navy teaching Morse Code to potential Communications Technicians back in the early 70’s. One activity we found very useful was to encourage students sound out the code, either verbally or in their heads, whenever possible: When you see a stop sign, spell it out in code “dit-dit-dit, dah, dah-dah-dah, dit-dah-dah-dit. (stop first, of course). Do the same with a newspaper headline every morning, at work when you see a sign on the wall, the numbers on a clock, etc…. You get the idea. We found that students that used this technique learned the letters quicker than those who just put it out of mind until the next class.

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Thanks Mike.  Everything looks good to me in MS Word 2011 MAC version.

Dave  N1RF

 

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